1.Ubiquitin-proteasome system and cardiovascular diseases
Basic & Clinical Medicine 2006;0(01):-
The ubiquitin-proteasome system(UPS) containing ubiquitin-activating enzyme(E1),ubuquitin-conjugating enzyme(E2s),ubiquitin-ligase(E3s) and 26S proteasome,is involved in the degradation of most intracellular proteins.One major function of UPS is to prevent accumulation of non-functional and potentially toxic proteins.Moreover,it has become clear that the UPS fulfills an important function in most aspects of eukaryotic biology,such as inflammation,cell proliferation,intracellular signaling,transcriptional control,and apoptosis.Recent studies demonstrated that the UPS regulates the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis,ischemia-reperfusion injury,familial cardiomyopathies,hypertrophic and heart failure.This review briefly summarizes current knowledge about structure,function,regulation of UPS and its pathophysiological role in cardiovascular diseases.
2.Study on bilingual teaching in drug toxicology
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2005;0(06):-
We explored some teaching methods about bilingual teaching in drug toxicology and proposed several suggestions for the bilingual teaching in the future.
3.Practice and thinking in construction of practical teaching system in pharmaceutical specialty
Yongna ZHAO ; Malin LI ; Huali LI
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2002;0(01):-
We explored the construction of practical teaching system in pharmaceutical spe-cialty and proposed several suggestions for the improvement of the practical teaching system.
4.Advances in research on ARID1 A in Malignancies
Zengfa GAO ; Yongna WU ; Xun LI
Basic & Clinical Medicine 2015;(9):1267-1270
SWI/SNF is an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex .ARID1 A gene is an important subunit of SWI/SNF complex and its dysfunction can cause abnormal chromatin remodeling , resulting in tumorigenesis .AR-ID1A occurs frequently low expression or deletion mutation in a variety of malignant tumors , such as ovarian canc-er, liver cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer, lung cancer and so on, which indicates that ARID1A is an impor-tant tumor suppressor gene .
5.Distractive effect in multiple-object tracking task
Xuemin ZHANG ; Yongna LI ; Li HE ; Hua SHU ; Yuan GAO
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2005;9(44):155-157
BACKGROUND: Research on selective attention of mobile visual information is relatively scarce because of difficulties in technology, methodology and experimental condition control. As is well known, most visual information in the real world is mobile and changeable. To examine the mechanism of mobile visual information is helpful to designing natural and highly efficient human-computer interface as well as selecting specialized personnel in special fields OBJECTIVE: To explore the distractive effect of the number, color, and form changes of distractors on multiple-target tracking performance. DESIGN: The present study was a 3 × 2 × 2 within subject design. Participants were undergraduates from Beijing Normal University.SETTING: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University.PARTICIPANTS: The experiment was performed in the Experimental Psychology Lab of Beijing Normal University in April 2003. Twenty-four undergraduates from Beijing Normal University participated in the experiment. Among them there were 11 males and 13 females aged 17-25 years.They all reported normal or corrected-to-normal vision and normal color perception.METHODS: ① Stimuli were presented on a 17-inch Founder monitor with the resolution of 1028 × 800 pixels. A Founder computer controlled the stimulus presentation and randomization of trials. Response latencies were collected by keyboard response with accuracy of one millisecond. The stimuli were randomly moving "日" characters. The number of "日" characters is 4, 8 and 12. As the participants were tracking the objects, the targets would transform to "(│)" and "(│)", and the distractors would change to "(│)" , "(│)", or "H" by removing lines from "日 ". All distractors and targets were red at the beginning of moving. ② The correct responses were analyzed with 3-factor repeated measures analysis of variance, multiple comparison analysis, and pairwise T-test.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Response time and accuracy of pressing the keys.RESULTS: The data of 24 participants were involved in the final statistical analysis. ① The three-factor repeated measures ANOVA results showed that the main effect of the number change of distractors was significant [F(1,22)=6.040, P < 0.05]. The further ANOVA and pairwise comparison in different experiment conditions also showed no distractive effects when target and distractor had different shape but the same color [F(1,2,3)=9.965, P < 0.01]. The further pairwise comparison indicated that when the number of distractors was 2 and 6, the participants' response latencies had no significant effects, and they had significant effect when the number of distractors was 2 and 10, or 6 and 10 (RT10-RT2=46 ms, P < 0.05, two-tail test; RT10-RT6=28ms, P < 0.05, one-tail test). These results showed that the increase in the number of distractors had distractive effects. ② There had no significant effect whether target and distractor had the same color or not, when the number of distractors was 2 and 10. And there had significant effects whether the color of target and distractor was the same or not when the number of distractors was 6; the same shape of target and distractor produced distractive effects (Tsame colons=1.926; Tdifferent colons=2.044,P < 0.05, one-tail test). The main effect of the color was not significant. The further pairwise comparison showed the same result. That is,the color change of diatractors had no obvious distractive effect.CONCLUSION: ① There was distractive effect when the number of distractors increased while the shape and color of distractor and target were different. ② There was no distractive effect when the number of distractors increased while the shape of distractor and target was the same. ③ There was distractive effect when the number of distractors increased while the shape of distractor and target was different, and there was distractive effect when the color of distractor and target was the same.
6.Progress in the research of tumor adoptive cellular immunotherapy
Ruling WANG ; Yongna WU ; Liming WANG ; Ying LI ; Xiang YAN
Basic & Clinical Medicine 2017;37(7):1055-1058
Adoptive immune cells can regulate and strengthen immune function of cancer patients,thus effectively inhibit tumor escaping.Cytokine induced killer cells (CIK),natural killer cells (NK),tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL),dendritic cells (DC),T cell receptor-modified T cells (TCR-T) and chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells (CAR-T) eliminate tumor by killing tumor cells directly or stimulating the immune response against tumor cells through different mechanisms.
7.The role of cAMP signaling on the differentiation of stem cells from the apical papilla
Shengzhe SU ; Yongna ZHU ; Jing ZHANG ; Song LI
Journal of Practical Stomatology 2016;32(5):650-654
Objective:The aim of this study was to investigate the role of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) signaling on the differentiation of stem cells from the apical papilla (SCAPs).Methods:SCAPs were cultured by enzyme digestion method.After adding activator (Forskolin) and inhibitor (H-89) into the culture of SCAPs in mineralization-inducing medium,calcium deposition was measured by alizarin red staining.QPCR was performed to measure the mRNA expression of mineralization-related genes.Results:When the cAMP signaling was activated,calcium deposition and the mRNA expression of ALP,OCN,OSX and RUNX2 increased sharply.After inhibiting the signaling,calcium deposition and the mRNA expression of ALP,OCN,OSX and RUNX2 decreased.Conclusion:The cAMP signaling may promote the odontogenic and osteogenic differentiation of SCAPs.
8.Effect of Young′s modulus and cytoskeleton remodeling on invasion of hepatocarcinoma cell
Wen WEN ; Baoping ZHANG ; Zhongtian BAI ; Jun YAN ; Yongna WU ; Jinjing HU ; Jizeng WANG ; Xun LI
Chinese Journal of Digestion 2015;(6):371-376
Objective To investigate the correlation between invasion ability and cytoskeleton remodeling of hepatocarcinoma cell by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and to explore mechanical properties during genesis,development and invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).Methods Four HCC cell lines (MHCC-97H,MHCC-97L,SMMC-7721 ,Huh-7 )with different invasive ability were studied.Mechanical parameter (Young′s modulus)was measured by AFM.The pattern of cytoskeleton remodeling of HCC cell lines with different invasive ability was detected by immunofluorescent staining. The difference of cell invasive ability was tested by cell scratch experiment in other to verify mechanical data.Kruskal-Wallis H test was used to compare the differences between groups.Results The results of AFM indicated that Young′s modulus of cytoplasma area and nucleus area decreased gradually as cell invasion ability increased (χ2 =472.78,622.43,both P <0.01).According to invasive ability from low to high,Young′s modulus of cell cytoplasm area of Huh-7,SMMC-7721 ,MHCC-97L and MHCC-97H were 1 602.43 (845 .48,3 317.25)Pa,1 055 .28 (367.48,2 280.77)Pa,1 026.78 (369.20,2 019.96)Pa and 503.12 (366.11 ,700.31)Pa,respectively.Young′s modulus of cell nucleus area of Huh-7,SMMC-7721 ,MHCC-97L and MHCC-97H were 2 823.98 (1 262.78,4 440.07 )Pa,1 313.43 (590.71 , 2 678.62)Pa,1 285 .17 (583.29,1 961 .19)Pa and 655 .57 (441 .29,943.39)Pa,respectively.The results of immunofluorescent staining showed that the stronger the cell invasive ability,the worse cytoskeletal integrity and more irregular cell microfilament distribution. In cell scratch assay, the migration rate of MHCC-97H was 46.67% in 24 h and 86.47% in 48 h,that of MHCC-97L was 45 .70%in 24 h and 82.86% in 48 h,that of SMMC-7721 was 39.41 % in 24 h and 79.85 % in 48 h and that of Huh-7 was 34.60% in 24 h and 72.09% in 48 h,which showed that the cell migration orderly in creased as the cell invasion ability increased.Conclusions It seemed that HCC with higher invasive ability had lower Young′s modulus,softer cell,stronger deformability,worse cytoskeleton integrity and more irregular cell structure,and vice versa.
9.Effects of mild cognitive impairment on perceived facial trustworthiness for older adults
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2023;32(4):327-333
Objective:To explore the effects of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on perceived facial trustworthiness for older adults.Methods:From May to June 2019, 30 young subjects (young group) were recruited, and 30 young older adults (young elderly group), 30 middle older adults (middle elderly group), and 30 elderly (elderly group) with normal cognition were recruited. At the same time, 30 older adults with normal cognition (cognitive normal elderly group) and 30 older adults with MCI (MCI elderly group) were recruited. All subjects were scored on the trustworthiness of young and elderly faces.SPSS 26.0 software was used to conduct a multivariate analysis of variance on the data to explore the differences in perceived facial trustworthiness among elderly people of different ages and elderly people with different cognitive function.Results:(1) A comparison of the facial trustworthiness scores of young and elderly faces among the young group, young elderly group, middle elderly group, and elderly group showed that, interaction between face age and age was significant ( F(3, 116)=6.30, P=0.001), the main effect of face age was significant ( F(1, 116)=23.18, P<0.001), and the main effect of age group was significant ( F(3, 116)=11.88, P<0.001). Simple effect analysis showed that the facial trustworthiness scores of elderly faces in the young elderly group (5.02±0.85), middle elderly group (5.15±0.55), and the elderly group (4.87±1.03) were higher than that in the young group (3.74±0.71), and with a statistically significant difference (all P<0.001). There were no significant differences in the facial trustworthiness scores of elderly faces among the young elderly group, middle elderly group, and elderly group (all P>0.05). There were no statistically significant differences in the facial trustworthiness scores of young face among different age groups ( P>0.05). (2)The comparison of facial trustworthiness scores among the young group, cognitive normal elderly group, and the MCI elderly group showed that, the interaction between face age and cognition was significant ( F(2, 87)=8.33, P<0.001), the main effect of face age was significant ( F(1, 87)=5.97, P<0.01), and the main effect of cognition was significant( F(2, 87)=39.37, P<0.001). Simple effect analysis showed that the facial trustworthiness scores of elderly faces in cognitive normal elderly group was higher than those in the young group and the MCI elderly group( P<0.001). There were no significant differences in the facial trustworthiness scores of elderly faces among young group and the MCI elderly group ( P=0.191). The facial trustworthiness scores of young faces in cognitively normal elderly group and young group were higher than those in the MCI elderly group( P<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in the facial trustworthiness scores of young faces between cognitively normal elderly group and young group ( P=0.134). Conclusion:There is a positive effect on the perceived facial trustworthiness in older adults with normal cognition, but there is no positive effect on the perceived facial trustworthiness in the older adults with MCI. Cognitive decline affects perceived facial trustworthiness in the elderly.
10.A study on the relationship between neck circumference and obesity related indexes and metabolic disorders associated with insulin resistance
Suying GAO ; Xiaohua LI ; Yinglin YAN ; Kai YU ; Ruijun JI ; Yongjun WANG ; Yongna ZHAO ; Guangbo ZHANG ; Yana KONG ; Huiling ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Primary Medicine and Pharmacy 2016;23(5):671-674,675
Objective To investigate the potential relationship between neck circumference and obesity related indexes and metabolic disorders associated with insulin resistance.Methods A random cluster sampling method was used to identify study population among the 4 412 60 -70 years old permanent residents in Renqiu region.Face to face health questionnaire,physical examination,laboratory tests were used.According to the gender group,the correlation between neck circumference and obesity related indexes and metabolic disorders associated with insulin resistance were analyzed.Results Comparing neck circumference and waist circumference,waist height ratio, and body mass index(BMI) of man and woman respondents,the differences were statistically significant.Neck circum-ference and waist circumference,waist height ratio,and BMI had positive correlation(male:r =0.752,0.695 and 0.761.W:r =0.707,0.655,0.721,all P <0.01).Increased trends of neck circumference,waist circumference,waist height ratio and BMI coincided with increased trend of thypertension,diabetes,hyperlipidemia and hyperinsulinemia and hyperlipidemia,and no gender differences.With the increase of the neck circumference,the incidence of above mentioned diseases also increased accordingly.Conclusion Neck circumference was associated with obesity related indexes and metabolic disorders associated with insulin resistance.Neck circumference measurement can be used as an effective indicator of central obesity,and had great significance for early prediction and prevention of metabolic disorders associated with clinical insulin resistance.